Hi.
I am Jessica Beck from IELTS Energy Podcast and the online IELTS course Three Keys IELTS.
Today I want to give you some more Sample Answers for Speaking Part Three.
I get asked a lot by students for example answers and model essays and such, and I know
you guys learn a lot from hearing examples and reading models, so today we're going to
do some Speaking Part Three Sample Answers about the topic of health.
The topic of health is very common in IELTS, guys.
Reading, listening, speaking, writing, it could pop up anywhere, so we're going to follow
our strategy for answering Part Three questions, which is a very simple three-step strategy
just like our course Three Keys IELTS, where all the strategies are simple and easy to
follow, and they all get you the highest scores.
On Speaking Part Three, when you are answering, you should try and follow this general strategy
of giving your opinion right away.
Follow that with specific reasons and examples, very specific examples and details, guys.
Remember, always use your own experience.
Go to your own experience.
It's ready in your mind.
Don't think about it too much or it ruins your fluency score.
Then, after the very specific information we give, we want to have a short one-sentence
conclusion.
That way, the examiner knows you're finished and can move on to the next question.
All right?
Let's see.
How would I answer these Speaking Part Three questions?
These are real questions that you could get on the exam, guys, so pay attention, write
them down, practice them on your own.
All right.
The first question is would you say that people in your country are generally healthy?
My answer would be, honestly, it depends on what part of the country you're talking about
because, if you're talking about the middle of the country, some people call it the Bible
Belt, I think, in general, and I don't want to be mean here, but I have been to that part
of the country, and I did notice there was a higher likelihood of obesity in that part
of the country but, however, if you're talking about where I live in the Pacific Northwest,
people are really healthy here, especially in Portland, Oregon.
People bike commute to work every day.
People are out walking their dogs all the time.
Although we do love to eat, we love to eat healthy food here for the most part.
My answer to that question is, depends on what part of the country but, in my part of
the country, definitely yes.
All right, so you can see that I immediately directly gave my opinion.
I used interesting vocabulary to describe my details, and I did draw those details from
my own experience, and then I gave a quick one-sentence summary.
I want you to notice that, in my answers, I am not going on and on and on.
That is not what the examiner wants, okay?
You should try and keep your answer, I would say, like a minute, more or less, because
the examiner does want to ask you three or four questions, approximately, in Speaking
Part Three, so allow him or her to do that.
A next question might be are there any recent changes in your country that have impacted
people's health?
My answer would be, well, honestly, I think there are some positive recent changes in
the way that people are eating and viewing food.
There's a big movement, especially, as I said, in my healthy part of the country, in my neck
of the woods.
There's some movement towards eating locally.
This movement is called the locavore movement.
You know carnivore and herbivore, right?
This is the locavore.
This is where people are trying to eat food that is grown and made locally.
That way, we cut down on the transportation costs, the transportation, which impacts the
environment in negative ways, noticeable negative ways.
Yeah, definitely, I think just that alone, that by itself is encouraging people to eat
fresh food and healthier food, so that's a very positive recent change.
All right.
Again, I follow that three-step strategy.
I would recommend, guys, that you go back to the beginning of this video and go ahead
and listen to my answers and write them down, and I want you to highlight the way I link
my ideas because, for that coherent score, you have to have linking words the examiner
will notice, right, and will see, "Oh, this person can organize their ideas well."
I also want you to notice that I do work in some idioms, like I say, "My neck of the woods,"
right?
That's a cool idiom to say, "My area," so please listen to this.
Watch this video a couple times.
Listen to my answers, write them down, and then practice your own answers.
All right?
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Have a wonderful day.